A Little Something for Nan

We finally got to see Nan, and give her our treats from Disney.

Tabitha’s New Job!

While Marie and I were away, Tab started her new job at Chick-fil-A. 

She states that she LOVES it!

Woooo hoooo.

Last Day–Half Day

We were up around 5:30AM and got ready and loaded the car.  Our room was only about 6 down from the end and super close to the parking lot.

We were in the parking lot 7:08AM
We were about 12 people deep for the tapstiles, but we were just planning to head for Minnie and Mickey’s Runaway Railroad and didn’t expect to need to run.

They let us in at 7:36AM when the early entry isn’t supposed to be until 8:00AM!
We went directly to MMRR and waited there and we ended up in one of the first ride vehicles out for the day.

Headed over to TOT for a ride.

Said 15 minutes, but took 25. 
8:13AM

We got this treat.  It was delicious – a mix of pineapple, coconut, and butterscotch.

We headed to Slinky Dog Dash – one of my favorite rides in WDW.

And got another ride on Toy Story Movie Mania.

We did Muppets and did some shopping.

We had an early lunch.  I managed to grab this meal while we were waiting in line one of the other days.  Yay!

Lunch was delicious – a seafood burger.  Marie got a big milk shake!

We saw a cavalcade.

We had our last ride – Rock and Roller Coaster.

As we were preparing to leave, we met up with another friend from the message board, this is Melissa.

And we headed out to the car for the long ride home. 

About nine hours later, the adventure was over.  But what a trip!

Epcot Day!

I think I normally start out any post about Epcot pointing out it isn’t my favorite park.  BUT – I was very excited about visiting this year because they have a new Guardians of the Galaxy Ride AND a new Remy ride. 

We were up around 6:00AM and got ready quickly.  At 7:00AM on the nose we got our Boarding Group for Guardians and our LL for Remy.  I also bought an Individual Lightning Lane for Guardians because we knew we’d wanted to ride it twice and our Fairy Godmother sent us money to do that.  ♥

7:23AM.

They let us in and held us at the rope on the side with Guardians, Mission Space and Test Track.  We rope dropped to Test Track.  We fondly remembered the time we were allowed in the upstairs lounge when John was a GM employee.

We made our car by 8:02AM.

We got off.  Found a bathroom, and then went for our first ride on Guardians.

It absolutely blew our minds.  WOW. WOW. WOW!!

Then we did Mission Space: Orange, which almost made me lose my breakfast.
Then we did Soarin’ standby, and had a 50th Anniversary snack.

We saw Winnie the Pooh, “in the wild.”

Did Figment.

Saw Pooh once more.

Grabbed an LL for Frozen Ever After later, and went to ride Nemo and visit the aquariums which is something I’ve never done!

Grabbed some photos.
10:58AM

And took our second ride on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.

We did some photos afterward.

Tried some Coke products from around the world at Club Cool, which was closed on our last visit.

We headed over to World Showcase.
12:00PM

Rode Gran Fiesta in Mexico.

And waited  LONG time to meet Caballero Donald.
12:44PM

Got some treats in Norway.
12:55PM

And we visited in and out of all the countries. This fish reminded us of Tabitha bc she draws beautiful fish.
1:20PM

1:51PM

Beauty and the Beast Sing Along was NOT on our plans, but it was cute.  And had AC and seats. My feet were really starting to get tired.
Then we went to see American Experience.

And then continued our trek around the countries.

We got to Remy’s early and the wait said it was only 25 minutes, so we decided to ride it before our LL time, because we figured we’d want to ride it twice. 

So..
We did ride it twice… but we would have been satisfied with once.  It was precious, but not amazing.
4:06PM

We were kind of very hungry.  We really hadn’t eaten much all day.
We went to the Patisserie in France and got bread bowls.  There wasn’t much seating, but we got a table for our food.  But when Marie went back to get our desserts and I got up to refill our ice waters, someone took our spot.  Just then, it started to pour and pour and pour.  We had to eat our desserts on a ledge.

All day we had hoped to see Mickey Mouse with our VISA card.  This would mean we got to meet Mickey at all the parks.
We waited a silly-long amount of time in a weird little building and lo and behold, we were NOT in line for Mickey.

We bolted to his building (another weird building next door not at all marked for his Meet and Greet) and, he was done for the day.

Ugh.  Marie wanted another ride on Figment.

We walked all the way back to use our LL for Frozen.

Took another spin on Gran Fiesta.

Then did another ride on Test Track; I’d picked up a LL during the day.

I had to cry uncle…

I had sore, wet feet.  I wanted to watch Harmonious.  But I wanted dry feet more.